The holocaust is probably one of the most terrible tragedies that have ocurred in the human history and without doubt the most shocking one in the past century. The horrors suffered by Jewish people, tortures, massive killings, and many other atrocities, have made of this tragedy impossible to forget for those who experienced it from a close position.
However, for the new generations, such event on the history does not seem to be something to bear in mind. With the advances on technology, the massive spread of the Internet, and many other distractions and tools that technology is offering to youngsters, history appears to have been forgotten.
Considering this, Art Spiegelman's 'MAUS' showed up in the 1980's as a controversial form of calling the attention of young people and new generations, making them feel interested about what happened during World War II. Despite the fact that Spiegelman's work appeared for the first time in the 1980's, it is still quite interesting in form and content for young people -like me- nowadays.
Anyhow, this new 'digital' generation, which aims for amusement and new hobbies, does not give the impression of feeling attracted by the idea of remembering the Holocaust. For that matter, Hollywood and the big companies related to it, have come up with new scripts that show the history in an ironic and different way, such as "Inglourious Basterds", directed by the always controversial and gore-lover Quentin Tarantino.
Although this movie is not based on the real facts of the Holocausts, it is definitely an attractive film that called the attention of many, catching a younger, blood-thirsty audience with a storyline full of revenge and the epic scene that everyone was hoping to see: Hitler being brutally murdered by a Jewish-American soldier.
Like you said,everyone was hoping to see that scene, like and alternate reality in which Hitler was killed furiously by a Jew. Comic books and movies made possible many things like that, maybe sometimes in a way of taking an episode so terrible like the holocaust and make a little justice of it at least fictionally.
ResponderEliminarWith technology and new hobbies nowadays is really hard for young people to be interested in History, but I think that comics, movies and even videogames are quite useful for encouraging them to learn a little more about it.
ResponderEliminarBy this, we don't mean that we must live in the past and feel guilty about something that happened many years ago, but we must be concerned about History so we don't make the same mistakes that were made before.